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L. HENN'INGER. MATCH MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 3, 1922.

' 1,415,641 v Patented May 9, 1922.

w/a'r/ 'e'y'yxyfer, wm%wi 'LUDWIG HENNGER, OF 'DURLACH, GERI /IANY, ASSIGNOR T0 BAIDISCHE I/[ASGHIIIIYIEIBT- FABRIK & EISENGIESSEBEI VORIVIALS SEBOLLD UNI) SEBOLD & NEFIE, 0F DUR- LACH, GERMANY.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, LUDWIG HENNINGER, citizen of the German Republic, residing at Durlach, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match- Making Machines, (for which I have filed applications in Germany 1920,- Austria September. 27, land September 27, 19520,)v of lowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in machines for manufacturing matches and more particularly to that type OfttlltOIIliltlC machines which is provided witha stepped push-plate or feeder slide adapted to be reciprocated below the hopper for the matchsticks and provided with grooves for. the reception of the sticks and at. thestep with an open space to allow splinters or chips to drop through and consists of a device for pushing the sticks into the carrier bars.

In the known push devices of this kind the lowest sticks of the stick-hopper repos- 1920; Switzerwhich the foling in the grooves of the push-plate in front' of the space are not supported at their rear end with which they abut at the step against the push surface of the push-plate. In consequence of this fact it frequently happens that the sticks at this place are situated too low at their rear ends which causes the sticks which rest upon the said lowest sticks to be likewise caught by the working front face of the push-plate when said push-plate travels forward' As, however, the front wall of the match-stick storage hopper must extend so far downwards that during the forward travel of the push-plate only the lowest sticks in the hopper can be ejected from the hopper by the push-plate, the sticks resting upon the lowest; sticks impinge. against the front wall of the hopper and break off or become buckled. The sticks thus rendered useless gradually collect in the hopper and prevent the dropping of the intact sticks into the grooves of the push-plate so that many openings in the carrier bars. are not charged with sticks, whereby the efliciency of the machine is greatly reduced.

In order to obviate this drawback the present invention provides a device by means of which the ends of the sticks located above the space in the push-plate and having their upper surfaces at a lower level than the bottoms of the grooves situated at the rear of the space in the push-plate, are

Specificationof Letters Patent.

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raisedfso far that theirupper surfaces at east become flush with the bottoms of said grooves, whereby the sticks them are effectively prevented from being caught by the pushing face of the pushplate duringthe forward travel of the pushplate below thehopper.

r Patented May 1922. I Applicationfiled January 3, 1922. Serial No. 526,850.

reposing upon he.ac'companying drawing illustrates one construction of the devlce according to'this' invention byway of Fig. 1 section,

Fig. 2 a portion of the device on a larger scale in longitudinal section, Fig. 3. a side-elevation of the rear portion ofthe push-plate seen from line A'B, Fig. 2 and I I Fig. 4 a plan ofthe push-plate. Similar parts areindicated by the same example. In it shows the device in longitudinal letters of reference throughout all the fig-' ures of the drawing. I

Referring to Fig. 1, e is the hopperor storage receptacle sticks not yet provided with heads. Below, this hopper the push-plate or slide S, consisting of two portions 0: and bprovided, respectively, with grooves 1 6 .70 is recipros cated inthe well known manner usual means, not shown in the drawings, whereby the sticks are withdrawn from the hopper and pushed into the carrier barsd. Z) of the plate or slide S an open space or slot 0 isprovided through which splinters and chips drop out of the way. According to this invention a railor strip f, toothed in correspondence with the shape of the push-plate charged with the match and by the I S, is inserted, the said rail being attached to the portion Z) of thepu'slrplate. The

crowns of the teeth of the rail as well as 9 the bottoms of the recesses between the teeth are bevelled or provided with inclined faces z and g and the upper edges of these faces are disposed at not more than the thickness of a stick below the bottoms of the grooves 70 in the part b of the plate S.

The lowest sticks in the hopper e resting of the pushplate S, in which the upper sur- 7 faces of the sticks lie flush with the bottoms of the grooves k of the rear portion Z) of the plate S, the sticks in the hopper resting directly upon the lowest sticks are able during the motion of the push-plate towards the left to slide freely over the lower sticks and to drop into the grooves 71 of the rear portion 6 of the push-plate S. This device prevents with certainty any damage to the sticks which rest upon the loweststicks and ensures a permanently perfect insertion of the sticks into the carrier bars. The device may with equal advantage be applied to push-plates or conveyor slides consisting of a single part only.

it will be understood that the device may be modified within the ambit of the claims without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. The combination, in an automatic ma chine for manufacturing matches, of a hopper for the sticks a stepped push-plate below said hopper provided with front and rear grooves for the reception of the sticks and a waste discharge slot at the step means for reciprocating the push-plate, and a device for raising the ends of the sticks situated above said slot to such a height that the said ends lie with their upper surfaces at least flush with the bottoms of the rear grooves in said push-plate.

2. The combination, in an automatic machine for manufacturing matches, of a hopper for the sticks, a stepped push-plate below said hopper provided with grooves for the reception of the sticks and a waste discharge slot at the step, means for reciprocating said plate and a toothed rail adjustably disposed in said slot, the teeth of said rail and the recesses between them being provided with inclined faces adapted to raise the rear ends of the sticks to the level of the grooves in the rear of the said plate during the forward movement of said push plate below said stick storage hopper.

An automatic mach ne for making matches, as claimed in clain1'2 in whiohthe teeth of the rail adjustably fixed in the slot of the push-plate correspond with the profile of said push-plate, the crowns of said teeth and the bottoms of the recesses between them being bevelled.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LUDWIG HENNINGER. 

